Class Warm-Up

Making the transition from where you were
to where you are now

• What is your name
• What is one thing you learned over the break?

About Me

Dr. Jeremy Price (jfprice@iupui.edu)

The Syllabus

Canvas

Imagine Your Future

People / Activities / Relationships /
Technologies / Norms / Outcomes

Classroom of the Future

This Will Revolutionize Education

Overarching

Technology can serve as a resource to connect with other teachers to grow, learn, and participate in a community of educators engaged in good and just teaching.

Self

Past experiences with education and technology influence who teachers are in the present as a student and in the future as an educator engaged in good and just teaching.

Truth

Technology can be used to embrace, provide access to, and find truth in the complexities of the information-driven modern era.

Community

Technology can serve as a medium for teachers to work in solidarity with students, schools, and communities.

Justice

Thoughtful, intentional, and critical evaluation of and planning with technology can help teachers participate in good and just teaching.

What Is Meant By 'Good' and 'Just'?

• How do you define 'Good' and 'Just'?
• How are the terms similar?
• How are the terms different?
• What do 'Good' and 'Just' look like in the classroom?
• What roles could technology play?

Focusing on the Good

• Start your focus on 'students in the margins'
• The 'what' and 'how' of teaching is held to rigorous standards
• Teachers have high expectations of all students
• Teachers engage students in opportunities for critical questioning

(Cochran-Smith et al., 2009; Grant, 2012; Rose & Meyer, 2000)

Focusing on the Just

• Recognition that there are disparities in educational opportunities, resources and achievement between marginalized students and their wealthier white counterparts
• Engage in a critique of the universalist views of knowledge which do not adequately recognize the experiences and knowledge of marginalized groups
• Provide curriculum and content that is both challenging and culturally sustaining
• Practice democracy and engage in social activism in the classroom

(Cochran Smith et al., 2009; Grant, 2012)

Focusing on the People at the Intersection

• Look deeply into you, who you are, what you value, what role you see yourself playing in the larger society and how your own traditions and experiences have influenced you
• Be a 'friend of their minds' ('Make yourself a teacher, find yourself a friend,' Pirke Avot 1:6)
• Find and surround yourself with others who will learn and grow with you and support you along your journey

(Grant, 2012)

Order Your Goals